{"id":467,"date":"2007-07-30T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mini.local\/blog\/index.php?entry=entry070730-215644"},"modified":"2007-07-30T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T01:56:44","slug":"remember-that-bug-i-found-on-a-tomato-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Remember that bug I found on a tomato last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biosrhythm.com\/wp-content\/images\/tomato_bug_close.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paulandjim.com\/?entry=entry060910-121535\" target=\"_blank\" >Remember that bug I found<\/a> on one of my tomatoes growing in the garden?  I found it by browsing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsthatbug.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >What&#039;s That Bug<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsthatbug.com\/caterpillar.html\" target=\"_blank\" >first page of caterpillars<\/a>. Yay, poisonous spines!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saddleback Caterpillar<br \/>(08\/08\/2004) Hello Bugman,<br \/>My wife found this really awesome caterpillar a few days ago on her Gerber Daisies.  I have been looking all over the Internet trying to identify it, when I stumbled across you site.  It looks like someone has asked you about a particular &#8220;Saddleback Caterpillar&#8221;, and that seems to fit the description of the picture I&#039;m sending you now.  Is that what this is?  Thanks for your help!<br \/>Gray Benton<br \/>Iron Station, North Carolina<\/p>\n<p><i>Hi Gray,<br \/>Yes, indeed, you have a Saddleback Caterpillar, Sibine stimulea. Beware those poisonous spines. They can cause quite a bit or irritation. Holland writes: &#8220;Nettles are not to be compared in stinging power to the armament of this beautifully colored larva.&#8221; Thanks for the photo and I&#039;m so glad our site was helpful.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that bug I found on one of my tomatoes growing in the garden? I found it by browsing the What&#039;s That Bug on the first page of caterpillars. Yay, poisonous spines! Saddleback Caterpillar(08\/08\/2004) Hello Bugman,My wife found this really awesome caterpillar a few days ago on her Gerber Daisies. I have been looking all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}